[JumpCrisscross]

> taking it too literally

They’re straw men. The problem is almost entirely inefficient farming. Bottled water and golf courses don’t move the needle, but they do absorb activist resources. It’s an incredibly effective rhetorical technique in a public sphere that chases shiny range-inducing factoids.

[hedora]

Nestle gets its water from all sorts of places, so in theory, the size of their global draw vs the size of individual aquifers shouldn't matter.

In practice, it does for some of their processing plants.

For instance, in Ontario, they pull water from aquifers that would otherwise go to tribes that have run out of water:

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-n...